Vermont Nonprofit Navigator

Explore the organizations and people that power Vermont's $6.8 billion nonprofit economy.

By Andrea Suozzo of Seven Days

This tool was last updated in 2019. It is no longer being updated with new filings. For more info, contact: nonprofits@sevendaysvt.com.

Organizations are required to list board members, key employees and anyone making over $100,000 from this or a related organization.

By default, this table shows results from all filings. Select a year to narrow your search.

Name Year Title Compensation Other Compensation Organization
Mr Jeffrey S Burroughs 2014 Assistant Headmaster For Academics $103,138 $42,234 ST JOHNSBURY ACADEMY
Ross Powers 2013 Snowboard Prog Dir $103,020 $0 STRATTON MOUNTAIN SCHOOL & SKI FOUNDATION INC
Mark Hudson 2013 Executive Director $102,982 $17,620 VERMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Nancy Chiquoine 2016 Director Of Marketing $102,974 $0 WAKE ROBIN CORP
Therese Johansson 2015 Cfo $102,931 $14,834 MAPLE LEAF FARM ASS INC
Christopher Forinash Director 2016 U.S. Prog. Implem. - Until 10/2017 $102,912 $9,788 INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
Alexander Aldrich 2016 Former Executive Director $102,906 $32,846 VERMONT COUNCIL ON THE ARTS INC
Bruce E Ingersoll 2015 Camp Director $102,893 $0 KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATION
Ellen Smith 2015 Vp Of Institutional Advancement $102,830 $0 LANDMARK COLLEGE INC
Constance Snow 2015 Executive Di $102,778 $6,668 WINDHAM & WINDSOR HOUSING TRUST INC
Priscilla West Mph 2016 Executive Director $102,702 $5,135 VETERANS EDUCATION & RESEARCH ASSOC OF NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC
Stuart Lopez 2015 Database Ana $102,655 $21,971 VERMONT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LEADERS INC
Peter Cobb 2016 Former Director $102,636 $3,079 VERMONT ASSEMBLY OF HOME HEALTH AND HOSPICE AGENCIES INC
James A Finger 2014 Cea $102,607 $14,052 REGIONAL AMBULANCE SERVICE INC
Alison Calderara 2016 Ceo (Current $102,555 $9,267 COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF BURLINGTON INC
Kenneth Page 2014 Executive Direc $102,511 $12,041 VERMONT PRINCIPALS ASSOCIATION INC
Madeleine Mongan 2014 Vp Of Policy $102,500 $23,338 VERMONT MEDICAL SOCIETY
Lauren G Moye 2015 Development $102,450 $0 KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATION
Dale Herold 2013 Vice President Of Enrollment Management $102,430 $0 LANDMARK COLLEGE INC
Paul Bruhn 2014 Executive Director $102,430 $5,980 PRESERVATION TRUST OF VERMONT INC
Pat Elmer 2017 President & $102,429 $5,779 VERMONT ASSOCIATES FOR TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT INC
Eric Avildsen 2016 Exec. Direct $102,418 $3,429 VERMONT LEGAL AID INC
Kenn Sassorossi 2017 Vp - Asset Management $102,383 $26,547 HOUSING VERMONT
William Ashe 2017 Executive Director $102,377 $26,337 UPPER VALLEY SERVICES INC
W Eric Schmitt 2017 Vice President, Asset Mana $102,309 $31,037 HOUSING VERMONT

About this tool

As of May 2018, Vermont’s 6,044 nonprofits reported $6.8 billion in revenue and $13.2 billion in assets in their latest Internal Revenue Service filings. The federal Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that nearly 18 percent of the state’s workers are employed by 501c3s.

Organizations like ProPublica and Guidestar both offer excellent tools that open up public access to the information contained in IRS 990s, the financial reports nonprofits file annually. But we wanted to be able to dive a little deeper — to see, search, sort and filter the organizations and people that make up Vermont’s nonprofit ecosystem.

So we created this tool. Like dairy? Try searching for the Vermont Cheese Council. How about horses? Check out American Morgan Horse Association or Spring Hill Horse Rescue. You’ll also find the University of Vermont Medical Center, the Committee on Temporary Shelter and Middlebury College.

Then, read Give and Take, our series of stories on Vermont's nonprofit economy.

See something interesting? Want access to this data? Let us know!

About the data

To build a list of Vermont nonprofit organizations, we pulled state listings from the Internal Revenue Service.

Some Vermont nonprofits — about one-third — file digitally. That includes all of the state’s largest nonprofit organizations, like hospitals and colleges, plus many smaller ones. The IRS makes those filings available as XML files for public download, and tools like IRSx make it possible to understand what’s in those data files.

In cases where electronic filings weren’t available, we pulled in PDF versions from ProPublica’s API, so that we could get a better idea of the organizations we were missing.

In all, you’ll find more than 13,500 filings from nonprofit organizations in this database. However, there are some caveats. Not all nonprofits file annual financial reports — those with limited annual revenue, as well as ones that fall into religious, governmental or other exempt categories, are not required to file. And even when organizations file 990s, they don’t always do them right.